Murderous Priests

Thou shalt not murder.

The Sixth Commandment

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and
is polluted with blood. And as troops of robbers wait for a man,
so the company of priests murder in the way by consent:
for they commit lewdness. I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is
the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Hosea 6:8ff (Spoke 6, Cycle 2)

This verse is the only verse in the Bible that speaks of priests as murderers.
It uses the exact word – ratzach (murder) – from the Sixth Commandment.
This shows the depth of sin that had infected the religious instition of Israel. This sin is the polar opposite of
what God intended with the Six Cities of Refuge where the slayer was set free at the death of the High Priest
(typology of the death of Christ).

The placement of the Vav [in Gen. 1:1] suggests two of its essential connective powers:

>> By joining heaven and earth it implies the connection between spiritual and earthly matters.

>> Since it occurs as the 22nd letter in the Torah attached to the sixth word,
את (et), it alludes to the creative connection between all of the letters.
Vav is therefore the connecting force of the God, the divine "hook" that
binds together heaven and earth.